Word: cottone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feminine Britain-hips will henceforth be streamlined, busts will again be budgetable. By edict of the nine middle-aged men who sit on the Corset Advisory Board, Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long...
Into their vacancies went a whole new team, hand-picked by Ed Stettinius and approved by the President: > Ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, 64, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to handle foreign economic affairs. Shrewd, wealthy Will Clayton, a longtime friend of Jesse Jones, will also take over the Department's civilian aviation policy, reporting directly to the President...
...last week tried to revive two major civilian war casualties. The casualties: children's low-priced clothing, and cheap rayon and cotton clothes for adults. Both have disappeared almost completely from the market because of OPA's regulations. Under them, manufacturers can make more money by finishing "grey goods" (rough, unbleached cloth) into fancy-looking materials, such as splashy prints, than by finishing it into plainer cloth for cheap clothes. What cheap goods there are for sale are so poor in quality that they will scarcely survive one wartime laundering...
...housewife can understand at a glance. Furthermore, manufacturers will get a smaller percentage of profit as the fanciness of the finish increases. Thus, the incentive will be to turn out cheap instead of expensive goods. Bowles estimates that this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will distribute between the manufacturer, the jobber and the converter the 5% boost in the cost of cotton goods caused by the amendment of cotton-loving Senator John H. Bankhead to the Stabilization Extension Act (TIME, Oct. 9). In addition, OPAster Bowles...
Shuttling Operators. One big hitch is that the cheap cotton goods will probably not be on the market till next spring or summer. Whether their quality will measure up to OPA hopes, no one can say. For although specific standards of material and workmanship were set for the first 30,000,000 children's garments which will be made under the new plan, enforcement is probably tougher in the textile industry than in any other field.* A complex business, its operators can weave in & out of regulations as deftly as a shuttle on a loom...